Robert, thank you so much for going into detail about the roses that did well for you in SoCa. I am really glad that I have already some of them (Charles Darwin, Jude the Obscure, Sister Elizabeth, Yolande d'Aragon), and I will think of the others that worked for you when you were gardening there. Yves Piaget is especially appealing to me! Thanks for posting more great rose pics! Seeing your photos forces me to try 'Munstead Wood' and I really like 'The Wedgewood Rose'. Wishing you lots and lots of fun with your "old" and new roses in England. Christina Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams

Berk, I am on dial-up and I am having the same issues. I recently started having them here and everywhere else I go. My Yahoo messenger tries and tries to log in, and finally announces that there is a problem, and I'm asked if I want to try again, and again, and again, until I finally just give up. I have 2 different dial-up ISPs (Long story), and they are both doing it. I log off, and keep trying until things get better...sometimes they do, and often they don't, until maybe hours later. Anywho...I really think the problem is with my phone line, as I have been having static on it intermittently lately. Attempting to open several pages at once (using Firefox) does sometimes help....but sometimes none of them will load...so it is log off time then. Have you noticed any phone line noise? Sue

do you happen to still have the paper work that came with it like the directions and the instructions manual that will have all your default info in it and how to reset it. If not look on the bottom for the model and google that you should be able to go to the manufacturer site and find the manuals. Did you set up your router originally with it connected to a desktop computer, in other words which pc did you install the software on? The router is setup on the family PC not my Laptop. Unplugging the router (and modem if one) itself from power and powering down all the computers, then power up the modem if you have cable first then after a while power up the router and once it is fully up then power up the various computers, often makes a big difference. I think we have a modem and a router for Xbox and laptops. are you just using the Vista built in firewall? Yes.I'm using the windows firewall. what are you using is it cable or dsl or what for internet? My son says it's cable/DSL internet. have you done all your windows updates? Yes.Except for three optional ones. I'm confused about resetting the router. That would be on the main computer. Will this help my laptop internet connection?

Oh absolutely you need to do those other updates, adobe and java are so important to keep updated, the worst infections we see these days come from not having updated those items. For flash you must install it on each of the browsers on your pc, there's a special version for IE, and the non Ie version for the others like firefox and chrome etc, if you need help with any of these please ask, but by all means do those updates as soon as they come out. Be sure you only have the latest version of java get rid of the old versions. When they put out updates it is almost always due to a security issue.